On a return voyage to Galveston TX, a Carnival Cruise line is now drifting near Mexico. Passengers have no power, A/C, hot food, or toilet facilities. Passengers are desperate.

Poor sanitation infrastructure, coupled with under-regulated anti-biotics, makes India a veritable crucible of drug-resistant bacteria.

Facial recognition technology is increasingly important at airports and border checkpoints. But it may be coming to the battlefield as well.

Erika Soria Molina, from Peru, is heralded as a heroine in her native country.

Photographed in the company of disgraced Capt Francesco Schettino, Domnica Cemortan comes clean about their relationship and the wreck of the Costa Concordia.

Cruise chaplain Fr Raffaele Mallena saw crewmembers rush to aid passengers on the sinking Costa Concordia. Thousands of passengers still in shelters.

Masterful photograph Kien Lam patches together over 6,000 photographs into a wondrous world-wide panorama.

'Poor man's lobster'?